Quotes About Reflection

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until I clear my head, or think of another book idea.

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

Few men can afford to be angry.